A conspiracy theorist could posit that this is all part of a scheme to get
people interested in the upcoming Scripps National Spelling Bee, or perhaps
it’s an effort to call attention to how careless we’ve become with our
stubby fingers when typing.

It also comes in the wake of Google’s releasing its list of the most common
words that followed the question “how to spell ...” The search giant even
broke it down by state, meaning that Trump was more likely to misspell ninety than whatever he was trying to spell with “covfefe.”